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Western Forest Products Announces Election of Directors

T.WEF

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwired - May 8, 2015) - Western Forest Products Inc. ("Western" or the "Company") (TSX:WEF) announced today its voting results in respect of the election of all director nominees at its Annual General and Special Meeting (the "Meeting") held today as follows:

Nominee Votes For % For Votes
Withheld
% Withheld
James Arthurs 225,653,406 96.21% 8,883,201 3.79%
Don Demens 229,450,296 97.83% 5,086,311 2.17%
Lee Doney 169,363,036 72.21% 65,173,571 27.79%
Daniel Nocente 172,868,817 73.71% 61,667,790 26.29%
Barrie Shineton 229,748,784 97.96% 4,787,823 2.04%
Michael T. Waites 229,652,804 97.92% 4,883,803 2.08%

The total number of shares represented by shareholders in person and by proxy at the meeting was 235,666,949, representing 59.65% of the Corporation's outstanding shares.

The Company has also filed a report of voting results on all resolutions voted on at the Meeting on www.sedar.com.

About Western Forest Products Inc.

Western is an integrated Canadian forest products company and is the largest coastal British Columbia woodland operator and lumber producer. The Company has an annual available harvest of approximately 6.4 million cubic metres of timber, of which approximately 6.2 million cubic metres is from Crown lands. Western has a lumber capacity in excess of 1.1 billion board feet from seven sawmills and two remanufacturing plants. Principal activities conducted by the Company include timber harvesting, reforestation, sawmilling logs into lumber and wood chips, and value-added remanufacturing. Substantially all of Western's operations, employees and corporate facilities are located in the coastal region of British Columbia, while its products are sold in over 25 countries worldwide.

Western Forest Products Inc.
Stephen Williams
Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer
& Corporate Secretary
(604) 648-4572